"His human chromosomes surrendered without a fight!” Vanya kept babbling. “The heart is overhauling the structure of the surrounding skin into a natural shield!"Before their eyes, the layer of Raka's human skin began to harden and blacken instantly. Micro scales with a metallic texture grew piercing through the skin pores, spreading to cover the left chest area up to the base of his neck.Those metallic black scales reflected the magma red light which could create a visual illusion as if Raka were wearing a chest protector made of molten iron.Luna stared in horror from ten meters away. The temperature inside the hallway was now spiking drastically. The frost flowers on the factory walls began to melt quickly, dripping water that turned the floor into warm puddles.“You see it?” Vanya asked, then turned to Luna.Her face looked mesmerized by Raka's body which was still emitting light.The mute girl gave rapid hand signals toward Vanya. 'THIS FACTORY FEELS LIKE AN OVEN! IS HE GOING TO

"Raka..." Vanya whispered with a violently trembling voice. "What are you doing?"Raka stood towering right in front of Vanya. With his back to the doctor. His posture was slightly hunched over with his head bowed. However, his back radiated smoldering hot steam.There was no remnant of a shirt on Raka's upper body. Metallic black scales were visibly covering his left chest up to his neck, emitting a pulsing magma glow.Whirrr—THUMP.Raka did not answer Vanya's question. He didn't even struggle to block the punch of the monster weighing hundreds of kilograms.He blocked the Alpha's fist using only his left hand casually, as if he were catching a softly thrown basketball."You..."Raka's voice came out sounding heavy, layered, and vibrating with a very deep and intimidating mechanical synthesizer echo."You are too noisy in my room."Slowly, Raka raised his head then opened his eyes slowly.Vanya, standing behind him, could see the reflection of Raka's face on the surface of the frozen

The elite monster that was supposed to be a boss had been finished off in less than fifteen seconds unilaterally. Without resistance. Without drama.Vanya witnessed from behind the surgical table. She held her tablet whose screen was already severely cracked, her eyes widening seeing the incoming data."His heart RPM is a thousand... Internal body temperature 200 degrees... No damage to his muscle tissue," Vanya muttered almost insanely. "He has truly fused. This is no longer borrowed power."From the front hallway, the dozens of Scavengers that had retreated earlier out of fear, were now driven by the smell of their leader's pooling blood.Their pack instinct overcame the logic of fear. They swarmed into the room simultaneously, trying to attack Raka in a sea of fangs and claws.Raka turned his head toward the wave of monsters. His vertical blue eyes narrowed."You're still here?" he asked coldly and just stood tall.He let the hot steam from his chest billow enveloping his body."Let

He tried to send signals to his brain not to do something he would regret later.The fifth punch finally made Raka fall to his knees. He panted heavily, both his hands clutching his own head.The vertical blue glow in his eyes began to blink unstably, slowly fading, and his pupils rounded out again like a normal human's, although the blue color remained faintly.The magma light on his chest dimmed to a more stable level. The room temperature slowly returned to normal.[System: Hah... hah... crazy. My binary-coded heart feels like it's going to drop out too. You hear me, Barista? You're back?]"I-I... I almost..."Raka moaned softly. His body trembled violently not from the cold, but from terror at himself.He stared at his hands covered in monster blood, then stared at Luna who was still unconscious. Unaware that death had just greeted her."System... what happened to me?"Vanya, who had been holding her breath since earlier, slowly lowered her tablet. The woman stepped closer to Raka

"Yes," answered Raka. Vanya suddenly stood up then paced back and forth in the narrow space, her brain working at a crazy speed. "This... this is the most extraordinary discovery in the history of science!" Vanya let out a suppressed shriek, her eyes sparkling wildly. "An inter-dimensional transmitter tower! If I can get access to that tower's hardware, I can dismantle the architecture of their universe! I can hack the source code of life itself!" Raka stared at Vanya with a warning look. "Our destination there is not for research, Vanya. The goal is to destroy the core of that tower. Cut off its signal, and permanently shut down all monsters on earth." "Destroy it?!" Vanya stopped pacing. She stared at Raka as if the young man had just proposed burning the Library of Alexandria. "That is high-level scientific vandalism, Raka! You cannot destroy god-tier tech